This I Believe
This I believe, that no one truly has anything in common, and that is
something we should each be proud of. We are all different. Maybe some of
us first realized this sometime in early grade school, which embarks us
on a long path of identity searching, confusion, and the strong emotions
that we experience in adolescence. This is the most confusing time period
where a person seeks a group for a sense of belonging. It may then come
as a shock after high school when we become more aware and see that still
yet we are different from the group we have found, questioning what
really we have in common. You may have experienced this seeing all your
highschool friends embark on completely different paths than you, and
even into different social groups. But all of this is a very necessary
part of a young adult^Rs life. What if we were all the same? What if we
all dressed, talked, and acted the same. To some rather large extent, we
can already observe this in many people still struggling to find
something they have in common with others, but if you ask me this is the
stuff of boredom. The real fun is in embracing that no one has anything
in common. This makes each and every individual completely unique and
fascinating, and underneath our manifested social images, this is true
for all of us. Afterall, if we were all the same, the very idea of the
individual is voided. The adult world is all about recognizing that you
don^Rt have anything in common with anyone, and making the best of it.
Some people don^Rt do this for a very long time, we might feel deep
insecurities and loneliness if we don^Rt have things in common with
people, but this loneliness is all an illusion since in all our
uncommonness, there is one thing that everyone has in common: that we
have nothing in common. We^Rre all together in it, and that is a
profoundly comforting thing to know.
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